Phenomenon: Many US medical schools have responded to the adoption of competency-
based medical education (CBME) frameworks by renewing their final-year curricula and …

Transitions are both a blessing and a curse for learning and professional development.
While transitions can afford valuable opportunities for growth, they can also burden learners …

Background Core to competency-based medical education (CBME) is the use of frequent
low-stakes workplace-based assessments. In the Canadian context, these observations of …

Background Assessment practices in emergency medicine (EM) clerkships have not been
previously described. Clinical assessment frequently relies on global ratings of clinical …

Next Accreditation System, an assessment strategy based on residents' achievement of
specific milestones within defined competencies as they progress through training. 1 …

Competency-based medical education empowers learners to use self-assessment to
monitor progress and to improve function. Given the difficulties inherent in self-assessment …

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, US medical schools have begun reformulating their
fourth-year curricula, moving from an open format of career exploration and audition …

Recent discussions have sparked a debate about the purpose and function of the fourth year
of medical school and the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education. Our …

Introduction The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires
emergency medicine (EM) residency training programs to monitor residents' progress using …

Background The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education defines Level 1 as
“the resident demonstrates milestones expected of an incoming resident,” yet a previous …